Goodreads asked Chrys Cymri:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chrys Cymri I've just started a urban fantasy about a female vicar who discovers that there's a parallel world in which there are dragons, unicorns, etc. It all starts when she finds herself giving the last rites to a dying dragon. The idea came when I was driving to meet a couple to have their baby baptised (I am a female vicar!) and I was wondering about a question I once asked my bishop. 'If I used holy water I've blessed on a vampire, would it affect him if he didn't accept that women could be ordained as priests?' My bishop brushed this off with, 'Only you would ask that, Chrys!' But what if he'd answered, 'Actually, holy water doesn't affect vampires. If it did, how could they be baptised?'

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